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McDermott’s Castle – County Roscommon, Ireland – Could be Yours for only £79,000 ($102,000, €90,000 or درهم373,000) – Bidding Opens on 7th December and Closes on the 13th December. Link in Comments.

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  1. McDermott’s Castle is a National Monument located in County Roscommon, Ireland on Castle Island, an island of 0.23 ha (0.57 ac) in the southeast corner of Lough Key. The Mac Diarmada were the ruling dynasty of Magh Luirg from the 10th to 16th centuries. A castle stood on this island from the 12th century; in 1184, the Annals of Loch Cé report that a lightning bolt caused a fire burning the castle to the ground. A rebuilt castle featured in the final part of the 1235 conquest of Connacht by Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught. The castle came under siege, first by a raft-mounted catapult, and then by fire ships. Cormac MacDermott, King of Moylurg, was forced to surrender. A poem addressed to Tomaltach an Einigh mac Diarmata (King of Moylurg 1421–58) tells the story of the Hag of Lough Key who used (or abused) Cormac MacDermott’s hospitality by staying on the Rock for a full year, and laid upon the McDermotts the obligation of perpetual hospitality. The McDermotts ruled this area until the 17th century, when it was granted to the King family from England under the Cromwellian settlement. The castle was rebuilt as a summer house by the King family in the 18th century but burnt to the ground during a fire in the second World War. What remains are ruins.

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  2. My dream has finally come true. And no need to worry about noisy neighbours

  3. Anyone else wanna throw down with me??

  4. I have lived in a castle and an island house, plus it’s a listed monument. You could not pay me to take this thing over.

  5. Whoever does buy this – please let me and my friends play D&D in your castle.